👋 I'm Rafael. I am from Barcelona. After a couple of stops in Stockholm and Dublin, I settled in Vienna almost a couple of decades ago. I live here with my partner, two kids and a cat. Welcome to my personal blog.

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• Back to the Future of Programming... with BASIC

  22 Feb, 2026

  Code reviewing one of my first programs written in BASIC.

  #coding #programming #software development #basic #ai #agents #LLMs

• The Computer, the ultimate asshole?

  12 Jan, 2026

  Coding, Bugs, and the Psychology of Software Developers

  #books #programming #coding #software development

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For all the love you’ve left behind

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Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me

Let the River Run

Previous Posts

• JAMming with Gentics Mesh, React Static and Amazon S3

  20 May, 2018

  Slides from a talk/workshop at the We Are Developers in Vienna.

  #talks #Headless CMS #React #AWS

• JAMming with GraphCMS, GatsbyJS and GraphQL

  18 Feb, 2018

  Slides of the talk I gave at the GraphQL Vienna Meetup.

  #talks #Headless CMS #GraphCMS #GatsbyJS #GraphQL

• Business Process Management & Eclipse

  28 Jun, 2013

  Slides for the talk I gave at the Eclipse DemoCamp Vienna.

  #talks #BPM #Camunda BPM #Eclipse

• Deploying camunda BPM process applications on the OpenShift cloud

  14 May, 2013

  How-to on deploying an **existing application** to camunda BPM running on JBoss EAP 6.x on OpenShift and a **a proposal** on how to manage the further development of the application and keep pushing new releases out to OpenShift.

  #BPM #Camunda BPM #Eclipse #JBoss #OpenShift #talks

• Transitive Dependency Mediation in Maven and Gradle

  6 May, 2013

  Troubleshooting a dependency resolution issue on Maven and comparison with Graddle.

  #BPM #build tools #camunda BPM #fluent testing #gradle #maven #testing